# Senior Body Mechanical Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

You will own the Body subsystem for a maritime autonomous vehicle, owning structural, hydrodynamic, propulsion, buoyancy, and actuation design from concept through production.

## Responsibilities

- Own the Body subsystem architecture: structure, propulsion, buoyancy, actuation, and mechanical interoperability

- Drive structural analysis and design of the vehicle hull and primary structure for full-ocean-depth operation

- Drive propulsion system design including thrusters, fairings, and hydrodynamic optimization

- Own buoyancy and trim system design, both passive and active

- Develop actuation and control hardware for vehicle maneuvering

- Define mechanical interfaces between body subsystem and other vehicle systems (energy, cognitive, payloads)

- Manage subsystem schedule and cost performance across prototype, LRIP, and FRP phases

- Provide technical mentorship to engineers across body subsystem disciplines

- Drive design-for-manufacturability in coordination with Production

- Represent the body subsystem in technical and customer meetings

- Interface with Vehicle Systems Lead and Chief Engineer on technical decisions

- Travel up to 25% to test sites and customer locations

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent

- 5+ years of experience in mechanical or structural design for marine, aerospace, or robotic systems

- Experience taking mechanical or structural systems through full product development cycles

- Demonstrated experience with structural analysis, hydrodynamics, or propulsion system design

- Experience transitioning designs from prototype to production

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Naval Architecture
- Aerospace Engineering
- Structural Analysis
- Hydrodynamics
- Propulsion System Design

### Nice to have
- Autonomous Underwater or Surface Vehicles
- Naval Architecture Principles
- Composite Structures
- Pressure Vessels
- Marine Materials
- FEA and CFD tools

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